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"Michael Haren analyses a remarkable treatise both as a vehicle of social doctrine and as a mirror of the milieu to which it is directed. While presenting it against its general intellectual background, continental and English, he also argues for its setting within a vigorous and largely neglected episcopal regime, that of Bishop Grandisson of Exeter. His wide-ranging exposition will interest students of moralizing literature - including Chaucer and Piers Plowman - as well as historians."--Jacket.Read more...

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This is the first full-scale scholarly study of a fourteenth-century English confessor's manual. It contributes significantly to the European-wide research on pre-Reformation confessional practice and clerical training. On another level, the Memoriale Presbiterorum's peculiarly intense concern with social morality affords pungent commentary on contemporary English society.Read more...

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Superb study ... What makes this study especially valuable is the thoroughgoing manner in which the Memoriale is treated within its historical context ... This is an excellent work of scholarship, painstakingly researched, copiously documented and gracefully written. * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *Read more...

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